Bava Batra 148A

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With regard to a person on his deathbed who says: Give the loan owed to me to so-and-so as a gift, the loan owned to him is acquired by so-and-so. And this is the halakha despite the fact that this does not apply in the case of a healthy person, as one cannot transfer a loan to a third party withou

Rav Aḥa, son of Rav Ika, said: A loan without a promissory note can be conferred as a gift by a healthy person. And this is in accordance with that which Rav Huna says that Rav says, as Rav Huna says that Rav says: With regard to one who said to another: I have 100 dinars in your possession, give i

§ A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: With regard to one who gave a palm tree to one person and its fruit to another, what is the halakha? Did he reserve the place of the fruit on the tree for the second person in order to give him a tangible object, and therefore the second person acquires the

Rava said that Rav Naḥman said: Even if you say that giving the palm tree to one person and its fruit to another is not considered reserving the place of the fruit for the second person, if he gave the palm tree to one person and reserved the fruit for himself, he also reserved the place of the fr

R' Abba said to Rav Ashi: We learned the aforementioned statement of Rav Naḥman with regard to the statement of R' Shimon ben Lakish concerning a different matter, as R' Shimon ben Lakish says: In the case of one who sells a house to another and says to him: I am selling the house on the condition